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Peacekeepers Arrest Ex-Sierra Leone Leader - - in Drag
By Associated Press
Freetown, Sierra Leone
February 22, 1998
West
African peacekeepers arrested Si-
erra Leone's former president Joseph Momoh when he tried to slip
through a checkpoint in the capi-
tal disguised as a woman, a mili-
tary officer said yesterday.
A commander of the Nigerian-
led ECOMOG force that ousted
leaders of a May 25 coup in Free-
town last week, said Momoh had
been detained at ECOMOG's base
at Lungi airport outside the capi-
tal.
No reason was given for Mo-
moh's arrest, but a local radio sta-
tion loyal to Kabbah has repeated-
ly alleged that the ex-president,
himself toppled by soldiers in 1992,
was a close adviser to the junta
that ousted elected president Ah-
mad Tejan Kabbah.
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